Monday, July 24, 2017

Art 15: Sports Man

Back in 2014, I attended a Life Drawing
workshop. This time, the model was a male. He was on the thin side and after
the warm-up sketches, I decided to focus on the hands and torso during a twenty-minute
pose using charcoal.

With this drawing, I drew swift and light curved
lines to guide the movement of the body, then, lines to detail where the
shoulders, ribs, elbows, etc. should be. Once those lines were in place, I
began adding the contours for the body, muscles, and such, until I had
something that resembled a man. Time was almost over, so, I began to shade
areas.

For some reason, I felt really close to this
drawing. Maybe it reminded me of someone or maybe the way the arms hung out of
the torso are an echo of a past time. I do like the way the left side of the
body was beginning to look with the shading. If I had time to go back and work
on this drawing, I would accentuate that section.

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